Three Ties to Bind: An MMM Romance by Michelle Dare

Author:Michelle Dare [Dare, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Daring Romance LLC
Published: 2023-05-25T16:00:00+00:00

18

PEYTON

Perry was not a calm guy on a good day. The weekends usually mellowed him a little. He did a bit of work, would relax at night the best he could, and he was more tolerable come Monday morning. This Saturday was anything but relaxing.

Perry stormed around the fortress without a destination in mind. No one in the office wanted to talk to him. They slowed their complaining about JJ when they were met with a pissed-off Perry every time they spoke to him. Stefen was the only one trying to help at this point. He’d gotten over having a new team member in a high rank shoved at him and was creating a plan of how JJ could help, given his experience.

I knew where Perry’s anger came from. He’d lost control of things. With JJ he was backed into a corner and thought it was his only way out. Maybe it was. But with Dominic giving his notice, that made normal Perry seem like a kitten compared to the one we got now.

Greer sat at the kitchen table bouncing one of his tennis balls while he read something on his tablet. I was leaning against the island, eating a piece of banana bread. Our dinner consisted of takeout tonight and it wasn’t filling enough.

Perry entered the kitchen, stopped in the doorway, then advanced to where Greer was so he could grab the tennis ball from him and throw it across the room. It narrowly missed toppling a vase on the counter.

That was the last straw for me. I was done with him and his attitude.

I stepped up to Perry and put my hand on his throat with enough force so I could back him to the wall. He hit it with a loud thump. His eyes narrowed; his cheeks flushed with anger.

Greer’s chair softly slid on the tile floor, letting me know he was leaving the room. Good. My brother didn’t need to be here for this.

Softening my hold on Perry, but not removing it, I stepped so close our noses brushed. “You’re going to stop,” I told him. “I’ve had enough of you treating everyone like shit.”

“I haven’t—”

“You have.” I stroked my thumb over his pulse point. He seemed to calm down the last time I did this in his office. “How are you going to fix it? Because I’m done dealing with you like this.”

Perry dropped his head back against the wall. “I feel like I’m being eaten alive from the inside out. My stomach hurts, my head’s throbbing, I can hardly eat, but I’m not sick. No fever, no normal shit I’d feel if I had a virus or whatever. I’m just miserable.”

“You’re stressed and strung too tight. You need a way to release the tension or it’s going to get worse.” It had everything to do with Dominic leaving. It didn’t take a genius to figure that out. Perry needed to come to the conclusion himself. He had to realize what losing Dominic was doing to him and not only in the office, but off-hours too.

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